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David Jackson: Tonewall Stands

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Label: Voiceprint Records
Released: 1992
Time:
 57:03
Category: Jazz, Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Producer(s): Nic Graham
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jaxontonewall.com
Appears with: Van der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammill
Purchase date: 2014
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Tumbledown (D.Jackson) - 3:16
[2] Beat The Schism (D.Jackson) - 4:28
[3] Corpus Christi Carol (B.Britten) - 2:50
[4] Touchpaper Blue (D.Jackson) - 5:24
[5] Polar Bear (D.Jackson) - 5:28
[6] Gubb 'M' Bikik (D.Jackson) - 4:28
[7] Rangoon Pilot (D.Jackson) - 3:36
[8] Romance From Lorca (Traditional Spanish) - 3:06
[9] Tonewall Stands (D.Jackson) - 4:44
[10] Turn Into The Wind (D.Jackson) - 5:24

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David Jackson - Whistle, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Double Horns, Keyboards, Arrangements on [3], Choir on [10], Photography

Nic Graham - Bass on [1,2,4,6,9], Bass Drum on [1], Percussion on [5], Piano on [6], Drums on [7], Guitar on [8], Producer, Mixing, Mastering
Paul James - Border Pipes on [1,10]
Tnuh Cram - Snare Drums on [1], Percussion on [1,7,10]
Jeremy Stacey - Drums on [1,4,6,10]
Moonboot - Guitar on [4], Choir on [10]
Mark Jenkins - Keyboard Landscapes on [5]
Jacob Jackson - Euphonium on [8]
Jasmine - Choir on [10]
Kim from Oz - Choir on [10]
Sue Jackson - Choir on [10], Cover Design

Rob Ayling - Executive-Producer
Mick Dillingham - Cover Cartoons
Peter Hartl - Layout
Paul Cacner - Photography

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1992 CD Voiceprint – VP104CD

Preparation: The Long House, Wokingham, '90/'91.
Computing and transfer: Unicorn, London February '91.
Recording and pre-production: Swordfish, Southill Park Studios, March/April '91.
Final production, mixing and mastering: Glass Trap Studio, Southall, London, July/August '91 and Uxbridge, London, September '91.



After the fall of the House of VdGG and a stint as a truck driver and other jobs, Jaxon went into teaching (maths at first) and different other projects, never really retiring from the music scene, since the man was bitten by the music bug. Having appeared in a few Hammill albums, another few Long Hello (the remaining three VdGG member’s group), but by the late 80’s Jaxon wasn’t really all that active: between 86 (the last of multi VdGG member projects) and 91 (two short works under his name, a cassette only Savages and an EP Hazard Dreams), he played only in one album of Sarah James Morris. With the ‘92-released Tonewall Stands, Jaxon comes back seriously to business and this album is very likely to interest VdGG fans.

As a matter of fact, this album is important enough to Jaxon’s career that his website bears the Tonewall name and by listening to this album, it’s easy to understand why. With the opening Tumbledown and its multiple winds (including bagpipes as well), you just know that this could be one of VDGG alumni’s best records. Jaxon’s playing is instantly recognizable and if it wasn’t for some disputable choices in the drums dept (this the early 90’s still with its major flaws), Beat The Schism could be easily standing on a Graaf album, the same could be said of Touchpaper Blue and a few more. Other tracks are more in the semi-new-age spirit as Corpus Cristi or Polar Bear, etc…and usually these tracks present a slightly far-east feel pervading through them. In some ways most of this album is somewhat comparable with the improvisation disc (the second one) of VdGG’s Present album of 05.

TWS is such an important album in Jaxon’s second coming into music, but the same year, the British gov’t would award the man with research credits/budgets to search with Jaxon’s experiments with the Soundbeam. This instruments working a bit on the reverse principle of the Theremin, and the project ultimately would fail to arise much interest, but throwing Jaxon into the ideas of music for autistic and other handicap children via his Soundbeam. This has kept the man happy for much of the last two decades, outside his collaborations and guesting on many albums and the recent VdGG stints.

Sean Trane - www.progarchives.com
 

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